Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced yesterday that she’s quitting her job with 18 months left to serve.

Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, 72, a Ronald Reagan appointee who has served since 1988, remains the key to the Supreme Court.

A man who was one of former Senator John Edwards’s closest aides has a deal to write a tell-all book about Edwards’ affair with Rielle Hunter.

Democrat Al Franken has finally been declared the new senator from Minnesota.

Sonia Sotomayor got reversed Monday, as the U.S. Supreme Court turned back a decision she had backed as a federal judge.

On his last day on the Supreme Court, Justice David Souter swore in Julius Genachowski as new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

Monica Conyers, Detroit City Council president pro tem and wife of U.S. Congressman John Conyers, pleaded guilty today to bribery conspiracy.

Another GOP presidential likely seems to have killed his own potential this week when South Carolina’s Republican Gov. Mark Sanford admitted to a long-term extramarital affair in Argentina.

Sidney Blumenthal, a fierce supporter of both Clintons, will be joining Hillary Rodham Clinton at the State Department, according to news reports.

Dick Cheney has signed a book deal with Threshold Editions, the Simon & Schuster imprint edited by his close friend Mary Matalin.

For Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, the turning point may have come when she had lunch with Jose A. Cabranes in 1976.

Where do financial regulators wind up when they leave their government jobs? A good number go to Davis Polk & Wardwell.

When the economy nosedives, the scams - a la Madoff and Stanford Financial - rise to the surface.

Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, under investigation in an alleged $8 billion fraud, is expected to be arraigned today on federal charges.

Monica Conyers is being squeezed by the feds to accept a plea deal before being indicted for bribery.